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US jury convicts man pictured with feet on Pelosi’s desk during Capitol attack

Richard Barnett, a supporter of  Trump, sits inside the then office of Nancy Pelosi on 6 January.
Richard Barnett, a supporter of Trump, sits inside the then office of Nancy Pelosi on 6 January. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

A jury has convicted the man who invaded the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 with a mob of extremist Donald Trump supporters and was pictured with his foot up on a desk in then House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.

Richard Barnett, from Gravette, Arkansas, was found guilty on all counts after the jury deliberated for about two hours on Monday, including felony obstruction of an official proceeding, civil disorder and theft of government property after he took an envelope from Pelosi’s desk.

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